Originally Posted by
SIUYA
No, I don't think so, because:
- Air North scheduled services from 1981
- Alliance has operated since 2002, and scheduled services since 2020
- Eastern Australian Airlines since 1949
- Fly Pelican since 2015
- Jetstar since 2004
- Qantas domestic since 1992 after it merged with TAA
- REX since 2002
- Skytrans relaunched in 2015
- Sunstate since 1986
- Tigerair Australia 2007 till 2020
- Virgin 2000 till 2020 when relaunched
- VARA 2002 till 2020
I think he was talking about mainline routes where the only new entrant that has survived is Virgin on the back of Ansett's collapse. Qantas was a rebranded TAA and Jetstar is part of Qantas. New entrants like Impulse, OzJet and Compass 1 and Compass 2 all failed.
REX was a rebranded Kendall/Hazelton and only did regional Regional is a different ballgame and often supported by government subsidies or monopolies.